This Passion oratorio Gethsemane und Golgatha was composed in the astonishingly short period from 22 to 28 July 1838 on a text by the evangelist Wilhelm Schuber, a close friend of Friedrich Schneider'...
There are many composers about whom it is believed, today, that they composed conservatively, or against the taste of their time. The question is also raised, today, which extract of this large amount...
Richard Strauss era consapevole (al più tardi dal successo del suo "Don Juan") della sua fama e soprattutto del suo "valore" come compositore, cosa che lo spinse, tra l'altro, a trascrivere nuovamente...
Addio morte e trasfigurazione segna una cesura nel corpus dei poemi tonali di Richard Strauss: Già prima della prima del precedente Don Juan, nel novembre 1889, Strauss aveva terminato il suo terzo la...
Strauss had originally intended that Don Quixote always be performed, if possible, together with Heldenleben, “since Don Q. in particular is only fully comprehensible alongside Heldenleben.” To date,...
Eduard Franck war einer der ganz wenigen Privatschüler von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, der selbst ein enger Freund der Familie Franck war. Franck stand fest auf dem Boden der Mendelssohn'schen Tradit...
Friedrich Schneider ist heute vor allem durch sein umfangreiches Œuvre im Bereich des Oratoriums bekannt. Nicht weniger bedeutend ist jedoch - neben seinem symphonischen Schaffen - vor allem sein Werk...